I see old content after uploading new files

In case you've just updated your website, but you do not see any actual changes, it's your browser's cache showing the old content.

You can either try accessing your website with a different browser or follow the instructions below to clear the cache of the one you're using already.

Introduction

Browser cache is a really useful function for all daily web visitors. If you are a novice in website development or you are just a regular user who likes to check some websites from time to time you may wonder what a browser cache is? As previously said, cache is a great tool which makes user experience browsing the web faster and more convenient. Cache is a temporary storage of the browser which stores some files of websites you have already visited. It ensures that the second time you visit the same website browser wouldn’t need to download all the data again. This makes browsing experience a lot faster for the user.

However, cache may also cause trouble sometimes. Especially for website developers who are editing their websites and need to see the changes on the web right away. If for example, a background image of the website was stored on browser cache after visiting the website once, the same image may still be displayed even after developer changes it to another one. And this is the time when you want to clean your browser cache.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to clear browser cache for various desktop browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla FireFox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Safari.

We will use the latest version of each browser as of 2016 summer, but similar steps should apply to other versions also.